Snow's Last Fling (for now?)

Just enough snow fell here on Sunday that the remnant snowbanks in front of my place looked a bit sparkly the next morning (even in the lessened light of Daylight Savings Time) as I prepared to leave for work. I supposed it would be a last brush of winter before the bounding up-and-down-and-up temperature reached double digits in the middle of the week.

Today, though, I heard on the radio heading into work about snow to the west of me. While it hadn’t started falling by the time I got to work, I noticed snowflakes out the windows later that morning. By the time I stepped outside in the afternoon to run an errand, I was using my umbrella to keep the big flakes off, although supposing they’d keep melting as soon as they hit the ground. When it was time to leave a few hours after that, though, the ground was whitening quite a bit and people were brushing snow off their cars. I drove back through big, sloppy bundles of falling snow. It made for more of a goodbye from winter than I’d been expecting.